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YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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What about GoDaddy? https://gizmodo.com/godaddy-is-giving-texas-abortion-snitchi...

You got me with this one. Actually threatening someone directly is worse than being an antivaxxer... Guess that's my cutoff point? Just shoot me in the head, I'm sick of this world.

People can't have too much freedom and these big corporations do the bidding for ruling political class. They are deep in tax avoidance and they don't want government to order IRS to start looking.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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I'm not much of a modern rap music person, however, by the 90s rap standards this doesn't seem that inflammatory.

Exactly what I thought. I disagree with the video and lyrics, but there's bigger rappers that have been peddling conspiratorial, third eye awakening wish-wash for at least 20 years. This is a weird video to target, and I feel like there's bigger fish to fry w.r.t. harmful misinformation edit: about COVID. Mostly that the most dangerous misinformation is that which can actually convince people to believe untruths, som…

> This is a weird video to target, and I feel like there's bigger fish to fry w.r.t. harmful misinformation. Mostly that the most dangerous misinformation is that which can actually convince people to believe untruths, something I doubt this video can do (it seems to preach to the choir). But who am I to know how their algorithm works?

It's really simple. They took down the video because it's critical of Biden and the guy is wearing a MAGA hat. Someone at YT probably saw the video, said to themselves "fuck this guy", and then looked through the lyrics to find one offending word or phrase, and used that as an excuse to ban the guy.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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So, now you cannot make even art with dissident ideas. Welcome 1984!

The art was made without issue. Distribution is not a right.

If you have a monopoly and your spy platform is essentially infrastructure then yes, of course it is.

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YouTube's bar for "medical misinfo" ladies and gentlemen...

What is the substance of your argument: that the "pandemic" is not a medical matter, or that "ain't real" is not misinfo?

I only get my medical advice from rap music, so I for one am glad youtube has provided me with this safety net. I hope they target the misinfo on how to safely fuck hoes next - that could also use some correction.

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Who's lying? Satire and humor are not lies.

Satire and humor both have definitions, neither of which described anything happening here.

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Something's wrong when the jester is found to have played a huge part in electing a leader of a leading world power.

How dare the lowly jester, part of the serf class, have any say in electing a leader. Only divine right and having went to Harvard should qualify a leader!

Let's ignore the wealth said "serf elected" leader was born into, eh?

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Who's lying? Satire and humor are not lies.

Why are you so convinced it's satire?

Regardless, YT doesn't want that anti-vax shit on their platform, so they removed it. There's absolutely no controversy here.

Re: YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

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Apparently the 'misinformation' trope has extended into art. Many of you defending censorship in the last few years (and very much so on HN) on political grounds are going to be changing your minds in the coming years due to stuff like this.

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> YouTube has no obligation to be a champion of free speech.

Unless we decide that they do, notwithstanding your declaration. I understand that you like censorship that you agree with, so it would probably be better to ask you about this when they start censoring things that state legislatures interpret as "critical race theory," or for claiming that a government official is being dishonest.

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